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Report to CBC Steering Committee from the IntoSAINT workstream

• 10 September 2015, Stockholm

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Global challenges and expectations of SAIs

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How vulnerable are you?

'COA chiefs involved in Garcia case cover-up'

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IntoSAINT

Intosai Self Assessment INTegrity

Vulnerabilities Integrity controls

awareness

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1. Promote IntoSAINT as a capacity development tool and encourage further use and development in support of the continuous development of integrity and accountability within the public sector in general and in SAIs in particular

2. Develop proposal for rolling out IntoSAINT instrument, moderator facilities and evaluation and follow-up system within all regions

3. Identify best existing forum at international level for sharing experiences and updating the tool at regular intervals and address the funding issues

CBC workstream objectives

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Progress

• Enthusiasm and visible concrete benefits (BPK, Afrosai-E, Mexico)

• 243+ trained moderators in 68 countries• 33 IntoSAINT workshops in 33 countries• Mapping of regional actitivities: 2 regional roll-out plans

based on common format + Fiji• Sharing of lessons between regional coordinators• Insight in to key success factors for sustainable roll-out

at national and regional levels• Gradual absorption into different INTOSAI guidelines &

standards (ISSAI 30) and SAI-PMF

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Sustainable implementation IntoSAINT

Quality assurance framework AFROSAI-E secretariat

EUROSAI Goal team 1 (SAI Hungary)

The Technical Commission of Good Governance Practices

ARABOSAI secretariat (SAI Tunisia)

ASEANSAI training committee (SAI Philippines)

CREFIAF Secretariat (SAI Cameroon)

Regions• Training• Pool of moderators• Lessons learned• Link to donors

INTOSAI• Updates • Train the trainers• Learning and sharing• Feed forward in ISSAI

• Incorporating IntoSAINT in SAI-PMF

WGVBS

• IntoSAINT in SAIs fighting fraud and corruption program

IDI

• IntoSAINT as capacity development tool

CBC

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Challenges

• Getting broad recognition of strategic importance for SAI’s and SAI community

“We don’t have a problem”

• Achieving wider implementation needed for institutionalisation, drawing of strategic lessons

• Roll-out in all regions and related funding

• Plethora of INTOSAI instruments and initiatives + absorption capacity

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Discussion points for Steering Committee

• How to raise awareness with Head of SAIs of IntoSAINT as a strategic tool?

• How to make connections between INTOSAI standards and programmes more explicit?

• What can CbC do to facilitate collecting and sharing good practices?

• How to ensure the development of a sustainable cycle for CBC products?

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Proposed next steps (1)

• Develop the strategic´business-case´for IntoSAINT implementation.

• Continue roll-out in regions: building communities of practice regionally and within CBC/INTOSAI and strengthening follow-up mechanisms

• Incorporate IntoSAINT in/liaise with other relevant initiatives and standards, e.g. IDI fraude and corruption programme

• Clarify links via visual tool

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Proposed next steps (2)

• Based on regional plans, prepare requests for donor funding to ensure critical mass of moderators and implemented IntoSAINTs per region

• XXII INCOSAI, Abu Dhabi: Presentation of proposal for IntoSAINT integration within INTOSAI structures and programmes

…• Adapt IntoSAINT for use in Public Sector Organisations

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Discussion points for Steering Committee

• How to raise awareness with Head of SAIs of IntoSAINT as a strategic tool?

• How to make connections between INTOSAI standards and programmes more explicit?

• What can CbC do to facilitate collecting and sharing good practices?

• How to ensure the development of a sustainable cycle for CBC products?